I resisted asking a simple regex question. I understand newlines, but my problem comes with matching text after my newline. I can successfully match the newline.

My text is:
   CONNAME(163.231.99.129)                 CURRENT
   CHLTYPE(SVRCONN)                        STATUS(RUNNING)
   LSTMSGTI(03.45.47)                      LSTMSGDA(2003-11-21)

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My regex is:
if (/CONNAME\((.*\..*\..*\..*)\)[\s.]*CURRENT[\s.]*CHL/is){
print "$&\n"; }

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I can match the newline with: (/CONNAME\((.*\..*\..*\..*)\)[\s.]*CURRENT[\s.]*

But, when I add even one letter, it fails. There is white space before CHLTYPE, but I accounted for that.

If I take off the [\s.]* at the end, I don't match the newline, which confirms that I'm matching it with it on (it also prints out a newline, which also confirms the match. It's that dang character after the newline.

Please help. I've looked through the forum and most deals with matching the newline. I got that far, and I know unix is \n, which \s should, and does, match.

Thanks,
BrassMonkey
"that funky Monkey"

Edited by Chady -- added code tags.

In reply to newline in unix by Anonymous Monk

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